Joint Secretary General of Hefajat-e-Islam Mamunul Haque was arrested from a madrasa in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area around 12pm today.

The Supreme Court today stayed a High Court bail order for two alleged members of banned militant group Ansar Al Islam and asked them to surrender to the trial court concerned in three weeks in connection with a case filed under Anti-Terrorism Act.

As the "strict lockdown" rolled into the fifth day, public movement and vehicles increased on most streets in Dhaka on the first day of the week.

A total of 3,562 people were sued in two cases filed in connection with yesterday’s clash between police and workers of coal-based SS Power I Plant in Chattogram’s Banshkhali upazila, which left five workers dead.

Detective Branch of Police have arrested 30 more people, including activists of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh, in connection with the clashes and vandalism in Brahmanbaria between March 26 and 28, according to a press release of Special Branch of district police.

With major historical monuments run by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) across the country shut down due to a spike in Covid-19 cases, the time will be used to carry out conservation work at the iconic Taj Mahal and other Mughal-era sites Agra Fort and Fatehpur Sikri at a cost of Rs one crore.

A metal furniture trader was stabbed to death for refusing to pay extortion money in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area last night.

Police arrested a man in Bandarban town early today in a case filed under the Digital Security Act for allegedly posting an “anti-lockdown” status on Facebook.

BNP Standing Committee Member Mirza Abbas today said he believes that someone from the BNP is involved in the disappearance of former BNP lawmaker M Ilias Ali.

The government is considering extending the ongoing “countrywide lockdown" for another week as Covid-19 infection is still on the rise.

Prices of daily essentials are rising every day. How is this price hike affecting the daily lives of the middle class and low-income people? What kind of initiatives has the government taken to save the middle class and low-income people?

After Biman Bangladesh and Fly Dubai, US-Bangla Airlines also cancelled its special flight scheduled for today.

Police today arrested a man on charge of beating up a Foodpanda deliveryman in Savar.

Two motorcyclists were killed in a road accident on Bangabandhu Bridge East link road in Tangail this afternoon.

Detectives arrested Dhaka City unit President of Hefajat-e-Islam Maulana Zunayed Al Habib from the city’s Baridhara area this evening.

Bangladesh needs to focus on keeping the global temperature rise to 1.5 degree Celsius, climate funding, technology transfer, and rehabilitating the climate migrants, at the Leaders’ Summit on Climate to be held on April 22-23, said leading climate experts and policymakers today.

Rickshaw pullers in Barishal today staged a procession demanding relief and rations amid the “strict lockdown”, imposed to curb Covid-19 transmission.

Two people were killed, and 10 were injured, as two pick-up vans collided on Satkhira-Khulna highway in Subhashini area of Tala upazila under Satkhira today.

Nine people were arrested in connection with torturing a woman at a remote union under Baufal upazila of Patuakhali on Thursday.

Police have recovered the body of Tareq Shamsur Rahman, a retired professor of International Relations Department, Jahangirnagar University, from his Uttara residence in Dhaka this morning.